Can someone help ID this coin?

I've exhausted all of the ways I know to try and ID this. Weighs 2.42 grams, and is around 21mm diameter. Ignore the large die break.

 

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Would that be a button or medal, riff? The reverse(?) appears to read Scovil Leav***so try searching that partial phrase...likely a company name. I'll do the same.

Bruce

 

Seems too small for a medal or token, and it has a denomination(at least I am assuming the 2 is a denomination) so I dont think it's a button.

 

Check this out, riff. Scroll down just a bit and you'll see an example of your obverse, but with a 3 and not a 2.
http://www.scovill.com/about-us/history/

 

WOW! You're good. I googled scovil and came up blank!

 

So is this an old US military uniform button? Does the A mean army? I wonder what the 2 denotes since it's not a denomination. Rank?

 

WHile you're here, I have an older Canada Dime counterstamped A.B.Foster. You know this stamp?

 

yup. It's an Artillery 2nd Regiment button! That's even cooler than an old coin to me!
https://www.pinterest.com/leftdave/...ons-war-of-1812/second-regiment-of-artillery/

 

Yes, it most likely is, and yes, it most likely does (since we didn't have an Air Force at that time).
Think about the year they started making those....1812....that's the second war with England...the War of 1812....there's probably a LOT of history wrapped up in that button.
You should research that war and read about the great things our citizens did back then, even the mischievous ones. Did you know Jean LaFitte, a very famous pirate, fought with us to defeat the British? A song was written about the biggest battle called " The Battle of New Orleans".

There was also a pistol made, called the Scovil Pistol, used during the Civil War. I can't swear it was made by the same company though.

Some great history there.
Cool button

 

Apparently, yes. The center "disturbance" was probably where the loop that attached the button was removed. I'm not sure why the spelling of the name is different. Scovil is actually spelled Scovill...with 2 L's. It's possible one L was dropped to make room for the rest of the legend, but that's just a guess.
The numbers might indicate a particular military unit...2nd batallion or something else. I'm not sure if that's an A or just a decorative flourish. Can you decipher any other writing in the worn areas?

Bruce

 

I'll check it out for you, riff.

Bruce

 

That's some great research work, Riff. Keep it up. You'll just get better and better.

 

This is probably the guy you're looking for, riff. Hard to tell for sure as the name foster is so common. I'll check

 

Riff, that man is VERY good when it comes to tokens and counter marked items and such.

 

I see that!

 

The back reads Scovil Leavenworth. Leavenworth was Scovill's business partner. from Scovill's site

"From the founding date recognized by the company, Scovill began business in 1802 in what was most likely a small wooden shed hidden behind a house in Waterbury, Connecticut. Its origins were steeped in the much-vaunted tradition of New England entrepreneurship, although the exact details of its first decade of business were murky at best, clouded by the passage of time and the modest origins from which it sprang. A handful of businessmen were affiliated with the company at its outset, when the business was known as Abel Porter & Company, including its namesake, the self-proclaimed "first Gilt Button Maker in the United States." Abel Porter, whose tenure with the company lasted less than a decade, was joined in 1808 by David Hayden, a button maker from Attleborough, Massachusetts, who stayed with the company through its first meaningful transition in 1811. In 1811, the cadre of Abel Porter & Company directors went their separate ways to pursue other interests, giving way to a new triumvirate of leaders. Hayden was one of the trio, a "second partner," whose prominence on some undetermined level fell short of a new arrival in 1811, Dr. Frederick Leavenworth. Leavenworth, who according to contemporary reports was "possessed of a quick insight into men and things," breathed new life into the company and offered himself as its leader. Although Leavenworth asserted his seniority in both the name of the new business and his rank within it, the true leader of the company was its third partner, James Mitchell Lamson Scovill. Together, the three formed Leavenworth, Hayden & Scovill, the successor to Abel Porter & Company.

Prior to the arrival of new blood in 1811, the company made buttons with pewter, a material most likely obtained by melting down old kitchen utensils, but soon the switch was made to buttons made out of brass. Waterbury, the company's home town for nearly two centuries, was regarded as the brass center of the United States, and Scovill, as one of the primary brass producers in the region. With the metal, Scovill manufactured a wide range of products, including buttons, hinges, and many other commodities at its metal castings operation. In the beginning, however, the company's production capabilities were decidedly meager. For nearly a decade, the company used horses to power its small "flatting" rolls, but when Leavenworth and Scovill arrived they invested several thousand dollars in a new production facility to manufacture one of the commodities the company made from brass. The new button shop, built in 1812, helped accommodate the surge in demand for buttons ushered in by the War of 1812. Leavenworth, Hayden & Scovill supplied pewter shank buttons for naval forces during the war, as well as buttons for the U.S. Army, Artillery, and Rifleman, beginning a long tradition of supplying the federal government with military buttons for every war from 1812 to the end of the 20th century."

 

Cool Dude. Excellent work !!

 

Greg Brunk lists an "A.B. Foster" counterstamp on a Canadian Quarter. It's designated F-370 in his reference. He doesn't have an attribution listed so has no opinion on the identity of the issuer.

Bruce

 

Great work, riff. I figured there was some partnership involved but never researched the company thoroughly, although I've known about them for some time.

Bruce

 

Now research Jean LaFitte, the pirate. I was born and raised in Galveston County, Texas. LaFitte and his crew lived on Galveston Island while they raided other ships. At that time the island was called Barrataria and it was overrun with Karankawa Indians, who were Cannibals. After the pirates kicked their booty several times, the Indians asked for peace, so they divided up the Island. The pirates got the East end, where the deep water of Galveston Bay was, and the Indians got the West end, where, at low tide, you could walk most of the way to the mainland.
Jean LaFitte's log house is still there. It has a National Historic Marker and is a big tourist attraction.
To me, it's all fascinating. It's my hometown history